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octatoan on June 13, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ruins of forgotten empires: APL Languages (2013)

Learning about those things is different from actually using those in production. J/K are indeed very, very interesting languages.

gwu78 on June 13, 2015 [–]

Not sure about you, but the software we are forced to use at work is never as pleasing as the software we can use at home.

scottlocklin on June 14, 2015 | [–]

I managed to use J at work. Kicked the crap out of a 240 core spark process on one thread. It really is an amazing technology, and people ignore it and lessons of the past at their peril.

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